Wheel Engraving

Focus, patience, steadiness—each cut is made on a turning wheel

You might see wheel-engraved designs on Victorian leaded glass panels, old light fixtures or on Venetian mirrors.

This demanding and painstaking work involves cutting designs into the surface of glass with stone wheels of many sizes and shapes. And it’s not just for flat window glass--wheel engraving can be done on flashed or textured glass too. A variety of cuts are possible, although most are V-mitres, and the designs can be polished or left matte.

Our studio does wheel engraving only on pieces that can be hand-held. We are not set up to maneuver larger pieces.